Grover Norquist’s top 6 reasons for supporting the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Grover Norquist, America’s toughest anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, testified before the Joint Economic Committee on how higher levels of immigration would benefit the U.S. economy.

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ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist debunks Heritage Foundation’s claims that immigration reform will add $6.3 trillion to the deficit

Thursday, May 9, 2013
Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform. SOURCE: Joint Economic Committee

ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist, arguably the country’s most feared anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, debunked the Heritage Foundation’s claim that immigration reform would add $6.3 trillion to the deficit,…

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Transcript: White House officials on deficit reduction measures proposed in the FY2014 budget

Monday, April 15, 2013

Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of remarks by White House officials on deficit reduction measures proposed in the FY2014 budget. The press briefing was held on April…

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Transcript: Remarks by National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling on Obama’s FY2014 budget

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Edited by Jenny Jiang Transcript of remarks by Gene Sperling, Director of the White House National Economic Council, on President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget. The press briefing was…

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Transcript: Remarks by OMB Acting Director Jeffrey Zients on the Obama FY2014 budget

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Edited by Jenny Jiang Partial transcript of remarks by Jeffrey Zients, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), on President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget. The…

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Transcript: House GOP’s response to President Barack Obama’s FY2014 budget

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Excerpts from press briefing remarks by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on the FY2014 budget proposed by President Barack Obama on…

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Transcript: Remarks by President Barack Obama on his proposed fiscal year 2014 budget

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Partial transcript of President Barack Obama’s remarks on his proposed budget for fiscal year 2014 at a Rose Garden press briefing on April 10, 2013:

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Transcript: Q&A responses by Professor Linda Blimes on the cost of the Iraq War

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Excerpts of Q&A responses by Linda J. Blimes, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War, on the cost of the Iraq War at the…

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Transcript: Remarks by Harvard Professor Linda Blimes on the cost of the Iraq War on March 21, 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Transcript of remarks by Linda J. Blimes, Harvard Kennedy School Professor and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War, on the cost of the Iraq War at the Carnegie…

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Simpson-Bowles call for an additional $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction

Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. SOURCE: Twitter.com/ErskineBowles

Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wy.) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles are pressing Congress and the Obama administration to reduce the deficit by another…

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